Inside Social Games’ Top 20 Social Games for June 24, 2008
As the social gaming space grows, Inside Social Games will be keeping track of the top Facebook games. Here’s a first look at the top 20 social games on Facebook as of today, June 24, 2008:
| Rank | Title | Daily Active Users | Developer |
| 1 | Owned | 719,375 | MyYearbook |
| 2 | Friends For Sale | 696,507 | Serious Business |
| 3 | Texas HoldEm Poker | 592,577 | Zynga |
| 4 | (Lil) Green Patch | 583,400 | Ashish Dixit and David King |
| 5 | Scrabulous | 475,116 | Agarwalla Brothers |
| 6 | Mob Wars | 365,330 | Unknown |
| 7 | Bowling Buddies | 314,291 | Playfish |
| 8 | Who Has the Biggest Brain? | 293,112 | Playfish |
| 9 | Word Challenge | 255,019 | Playfish |
| 10 | Pokey | 245,624 | Bonehead Labs |
| 11 | Speed Racing | 213,552 | Zynga |
| 12 | MindJolt Games | 183,560 | MindJolt |
| 13 | Scramble | 159,550 | Zynga |
| 14 | Parking Wars | 139,990 | area/code |
| 15 | Bubble Town | 128,833 | I-play |
| 16 | Pet Pupz | 127,158 | Nicola Borchard and Matt Beswick |
| 17 | Premier Football | 124,563 | PageFad |
| 18 | Word Twist | 113,547 | Zynga |
| 19 | Tower Bloxx | 102,144 | Digital Chocolate |
| 20 | Knighthood | 97,727 | Hive7 |
Some interesting observations:
- This list only measures DAU, not engagement or monetization, of course.
- 5 of the top 10 and 21 of the top 50 Facebook apps are games.
- Social network MyYearbook has the most popular game on Facebook, Owned. It is a copy cat of Serious Business‘s Friends For Sale, which is only slightly behind at #2.
- Playfish is a rising star with 3 out of the top 10 games. Their engagement rate as a company is also at 13%, the highest of any large app developer on Facebook.
- Zynga has 4 apps on this list, and is the 3rd largest Facebook developer overall in terms of DAU, behind Slide and RockYou.
- Even though Nicknames, the largest app in terms of DAU by social game developer SGN, doesn’t make it into this list, SGN is the 7th largest Facebook developer overall in terms of DAU.
June 24th, 2008 at 10:33 am
Wanted to point out that you’ve misattributed a game developer.
Tim Saberi and Greg Thompson are undoubtedly fine people, but Tower Bloxx was developed by Digital Chocolate, not Tim & Greg.
Thanks,
Paul Abbassi
CTO, Digital Chocolate
http://www.digitalchocolate.com | pabbassi@digitalchocolate.com
June 26th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
Similarly, “Parking Wars” was developed for A&E, but it was designed and developed by the game developers Area/Code. We are in the development process of a few other titles now.
If you could correct the misattribution, it would be appreciated.
Thanks
Kevin Slavin
Managing Director, Area/Code
July 28th, 2008 at 11:15 am
Hi, asking again if you could fix the mis-attribution on Parking Wars?
Much appreciated.
August 3rd, 2008 at 3:38 pm
[...] previously the 5th biggest game on Facebook, has been taken offline by its developers, the Agarwalla Brothers, after receiving a cease and [...]
December 15th, 2008 at 11:00 pm
Hi all,
I am a student and iam really amazed to see the trafic controlled by these destination sites,if i have to contact the people who are responsible for creating such good sites, how do i reach them.
February 5th, 2010 at 1:48 am
Some of these applications I dont think I would call games, such as friends for sale its more of a toy than a facebook game?
January 21st, 2011 at 5:48 pm
[...] Six year old Area/Code, however, has a strikingly wide range of experiences, including the somewhat unique one of building a successful media-branded social game for a leading traditional game developer. CSI wasn’t the first branded game, either — it made Parking Wars for A&E back in 2008, and that game made one of our first AppData leaderboards. [...]